George Clooney praises goat co-star

George Clooney has called his animal co-star in The Men Who Stare At Goats "a great actor".

Clooney, who portrays a psychic spy with the ability to kill goats using telepathic powers in Grant Heslov's comedy, said at the movie's London Film Festival press conference that the goat he acted with was a more reliable castmate than Ewan McGregor.

"I was a fox and now I'm working with goats," said Clooney, referring to Fantastic Mr Fox, in which he voices the lead character. "This goat was a particularly nice goat, we spent a lot of time together. He wanted to go over dying around me so we worked on that for a while.

"The funny thing is the goat was a great actor. He walked in and you went, 'Stare at the camera', and he did it. If you could get Ewan to do that it would help!"

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